Month: August 2008
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Birthday 2008 Part 2: The Cake was not a lie
Day 2 started with me groggily getting out of bed, grabbing my work laptop and heading into the basement. An hour later, I had the network back up with access to the internet. Unfortunately, I ended up having to reset my router causing me to lose all of my security settings and MAC addresses for…
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Birthday 2008 Part 1: The Big Haul
Year to year, I have to admit, I’ve had some pretty good birthdays. Part of this might be due to summer weather or no school or one of a dozen other reasons. Last year kind of sucked. Things were pretty busy and I didn’t think about it until it was too late to plan anything.…
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Back from Otakon 2008
I am back in Boston and exhausted from my long weekend in Baltimore. Otakon 2008 was a blast. I really had a good time. It was great to meet up with everyone and see all the costumes, panels, anime and stuff to buy this year. I’ll try to get some pictures up tomorrow. No promises…
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Airline Fee'd
Today we leave for Baltimore. Peg, Joaquin, Brendan, and myself will be flying down and meeting up with aDam and Janine (the Canadians) and Brenna, Ruth, and Mas (the upstate New York contingent) and will be attending Otakon tomorrow. Otakon is the largest anime convention on the east coast. Approximately 23,000 attendees each year. Quite…
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Toying with the idea
I have this semi-new self-imposed rule that I have to take a picture of any new toys in package before I open it. This is for several reasons. It gives me less incentive to hold on to the packaging for future reference. It also allows me to build an easy to access image archive of…